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Focuses on the reaction of the British Medical Association to the proposals contained in the white paper 'Working for Patients' in Great Britain. Concerns on the harmful effects of the proposals; Opposition to centralized bureaucracy and the methods for paying doctors; Criticisms on the lack of proper consultation with the medical profession.

Reports on the move of doctors not to cooperate in the implementation on proposal to reform National Health Services (NHS) in Great Britain. Arguments to persuade government and public on impracticality of proposal; Failure on acknowledging NHS problem; Impairment of the ability of hospital authorities to coordinate services effectively.

Discusses a British doctors efforts to set up a coronary ambulance service in Great Britain. How the service would respond to a general practitioner's suspicion of myocardial ischaemia, assess the patient, and take him to hospital if necessary; Persuasion of medical authorities to adopt his idea; Development of an intensive care ambulance service; Treatment of the doctor by the service after he experienced unstable angina.

The article discusses medical reforms taking place in Great Britain. The British General Medical Council will no longer have the right to decide whether the misconducts of doctors make them unfit to practice medicine. The medical reforms are discussed in a white paper filed by British Department of Health. The reforms in the paper called for a smaller General Medical Council with equal numbers of medical and lay people. The reforms are built upon the review "Good Doctors, Safer Patients," by Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer of England. The reforms also call for the revalidation of physicians.

The article reports on Andrew Wakefield, whose warnings about a possible link between measles, mumps and rubella and autism caused a public health scare in Great Britain, and in July of 2007 was accused by Great Britain's General Medical Council (GMC) of paying children money to give blood samples at his son's birthday party. The accusation was made in a GMC case which involved three doctors who wrote a paper on developmental disorders which was featured in the British periodical "Lancet" in 1998.

Comments on the merits of budget holding reflected in the white paper 'Working for Patients' during the general practitioners' forum in Great Britain. Difficulty of changing information between hospitals and general practices on the morbidity of costing; Inconsistencies of the white paper; Debate on the merits of general practice budget holding.

Reports on updated guidelines setting out boundaries for relationships between hospital doctors and healthcare firms which appear in a paper from the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain. Extension of the coverage of guidance beyond pharmaceutical companies to include biomedical firms; Concern that money from biomedical firms could interfere with a physician's independent judgment; Rules on physician-pharmaceutical company relationships in other countries, including the U.S.

Provides information about the contribution of Richard Doll, doctor in Great Britain, on several medical papers. Involvement of Doll on smoking and health program; Information about the lecture given by Doll in Radcliffe Infirmary.

Relates the experiences of the author as physician and journalist in Great Britain. Benefits of being a journalist physician; Knowledge on basic medicine; Concerns on the originality of medical research papers to be published.